TOE OREGON DAILY JOTJIWTAL, PORTLAKD, Til ETltSDAY EVEN ING-, DECEMBElt 17. 1903.
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SIXf H OF CITYfSPEOPLE ENGAGED
IN MANUFACTURES
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, EW periions stop to eorfblder Port-
land In ttia aens of manu
'facturln city. : The rreat
- mass of those at all acaualnte-1
fivith the town, when aaked concerning
tta reHourcee, remark in an offhand way
omethlng about shipping, lumber and
agriculture. The loom, the foundry and
the shop are' forgotten, but It la a mat
ter of conservative : estimate to say
that during the present year the gross
value of manufactured products reaches
the amaslng sum of $49,417,000. These
fls-ures aDDear really appalling' when
placed alongside of the census returns
of 100, which show the . total gross
product of the city for that year to be
123,451,132. ; . ,
And these figures are not the hap
liasard' estimate tof some, enthusiastic!
Portlander, who is blind to- the short
comings and defects of his city, . but
the result of careful inquiry and con
servative reckoning. ' Colin H. Mc
Isaac, secretary of the Manufacturers'
association, of the Northwest, who, has'
fovtiiei e great deaf of time and attention-to
'the collection of data' concern
Ipg the output of t the industries of
Portland and the state of Oregon. That
bis figures are conservative, he Is em
phatic and.says! i v--
"I have been told that my estimates
were a little high, but t hardly think
w In all . cases I have been careful
not to go too strong. Now, as a matter
' of fact, the wool clio of the state this
year was . something over 22,000,000
pounds, but I figured it In at 20,000,000,
TnTiB KiTins K sun ,vvv,vuv iivudub ua
wool the benefit of the doubt. Then,
too. I determined the value at 12 cents
per pound, when I know that In most
Instances the price was It hi cents.
"It is next an Impossibility to find
; out the" exact output of all industries
by correspondence. T.rX""gte8.t" number
will not answer your letters or, will
Bivv iivii iiiiui ujnirvif fit ai.TOftuv limit-
ner. . Because of this, there are a great
many products that must of necessity
escape' one's - attention. , Then, again,
'products used for -home .consumption
are oftentimes not figured in." -
The amount of capital invested in me
chantcal and manufacturing Industries
in the city of Portland this year is $J2,
000,000. In the state the figures amount
to 143,000,000. . The ' value of - land,
buildings, machinery, tools and Imple
ments and live capital invested is in
cluded in these figures, but not the
capital stock of any or the manufac
turing corporations. The number of es
tablishments in the city- are 2,000 i in
the state, 4,600. A comparative sum-
, mary of the manufacturing and me
rhanlcal industries of the state and the
' city fof IflOJ shows:
. Number of manufacturing and .
i mechanical industries , .... 4.600
.Capital invested ,.,.148,000,000
Value of land and buildings, $12,000,000
iNumbos of officers and clerks
(salaried) ..... . . ... ... . ... r 1,600
Fnlsrles offlctalsand clerks. .$ 1,400,000
nv'sg"? earners employed .... 25,000
'Total "wages paid 113,000,000
f Value product of state .$83,837,000
.' ... t. Vortlaad.
Number of establishments.,. ' 1,000
'apltl invested ...$32,000,000
' Number of wage earners.,... 23,000
Total wages paid $,000,000
' 'Value of product .......... .$4$, 437,000
A statement of the sixteen leading In
dustries of the state for the year Is as
. Timber end forest produrts -logs,
poles, ties, cord wood, .
' etc., hardwoods and all tlm- ' ;V,
ber cut (not Included in sta- '
tlstlcs of manufacture) ...$30,000,000
T.umber i . 1$,000,000
. l louiing and grist mill prod
8,000,000
shop
5,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
2.000.000
2.000,000'
1,700,000
1,600.000
1,500.000
1,400,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
' ucts ; . .;....1;;V
Meat packing and slaughter
ing . .
Fish,- canning and preserving.
Cars -and shop repairing by
-.. steam railway and street
car companies . . .;.
Butter and cheese, ; factory
product . . . ,
Psner and wood duId
Baddlery and harness' ,
Foundry' and machine
product
Woolen mill product .'-......
Malt liquors . ..............
Planing mills sash, doors
and blinds ,
Ship and boat building .....
Crackers and bread product..
A-glance al. the figures set down will
convince one that the mark "made in
Oregon." on goods is no longer being
met with the opposition that It once
did, and that rapidly the craze for ar
ticles of eastern, or foreign manufacture
Is giving way to a desire to patronise
home industry and buy goods of local
make, so long as they are In any way
equal to the standard of the older es
tablishments. . In comparison with the output of
Portland concerns, the urban manufac
tories for the years 1900 and 190$ show;
, i ? ." . ' - tflOO. 1908.
Aitoria ....,...i,..,.,.j.$2.62S,37S $3.Oflo,00Q
Oreoa City 2.0A0.17S ,,8,O()0,0iiO
Bokw City M4.RTJ 1.250,000
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L tirtntl 500,684 700,000
Totals V.. ............. .$S.802.4RT $9,010,000
The growth of manufacturing indus
tries, not alone in years, but in months,
brlngs-out th following comparisons
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Tear. ".' - Bute. . City. of city.
lfXKl. ...... .$46,000,687 $2,4M.13 $22,640,455
1002..,.,.,, 0,9iM,000 , 37,756.500 2H.1B.5oO
1902. ...... S4.B24.41S 14,104.aa : 10.820.04.1
BS.Ba7.00O M9.4fl7.tXP0 B4. 500,000
1B03 .v 23,012,000 11,671,000 11,840,600
Inoresie over 1600.-. Iiwrease orr 100$.
All figures given should be tsken as
meaning gross products, for in some In
stances what is the : finished output of
one mill , becomes-the raw material of
another mill: For Instance, rough lum
ber is turned out from the sawmill and
becomes the raw material of the planer.
Flour and wheat preparations the raw
product of the breakfast food plant
A word regarding the Portland wags
earners, - who contribute their labor to
bring forth these millions. There are
23,000 men, women and children em
ployed In the local shops, mills and
foundries, or nearly one-sixth of the
entire population of the city of Port
land. The manufacturers of the North
west apply the motto, "No community
is. prosperous whose people are not em
ployed," and Portlanders have work to
do.
But with her thousands .of wags earn
ers and millions Invested In plants,
Portland, from a manufacturing point
of view, is still in its infancy. Butter
.and cheese products In the state amount
to $2,000,000 this year, .but sun eastern
and foreign butter and cheese find their
way into the local markets. And by
eastern . markets is not meant Chicago,
but New York and the Atlantic , sea
board.' . '' "...:"'". '
Portland has been . likened . to New
York in Its early days respecting manu
factories. . Little concerns employing
half a dosen persons and occupying but
one or two rooms, are scattered over the
town, but were these places eliminated
a vast difference in the business , ac
tivity of the city would result, . The
same thing would be true of New York
to this- very day. Its thousand of
small. Industries go a great way toward
adding, to the prosperity o the giant
metropolis and in building tfcs city.
TEN MILLIONS FROM
MINES
IT is estimated that the mines of Ore
gon during the year 1903 have pro
duced over $10,000,000 worth of
gold, silver and other metals of
lesser value. The exact amount. If la
impossible to determine. In 1902 the
United States government accredited
this state with producing metals to the
value of $1,937,030. yet it is a fact that
the output of the famous North Pole
mine was in itself over $3,000,000. The
question very naturally arises, why this
great discrepancy? It la easily an
swered. Oregon has but few smelters
and a great deal of its bullion Is shipped
to Boise, and Idaho gets . the credit
for producing it. Then again this state
has no government assay office and it
the operators do not see fit to make
known the output of their mines a rough
guess lias to be taken. The United
States government has not the time to
search out the products land it takes
only the figures available. Mining men
who are acquainted with the conditions
in Oregon place last year's output at
about $1,000,000.
Since the day when the mineral wealth
of . the great West was discovered in
the race of the old Sutter mill in Cali
fornia, that, state, which bears the name
Golden, has been accredited with being
the mineral producing part of the Pa
cific.' That Oregon, Idaho, Montana and
the other states are rich in ores is not
denied, but they get not their share of
the credit, especially the first named,
because of unorganised effort to bring
mining men of the stats together. It
is only a few months since the Oregon
Miners' association sprang Into Hfe. snd
that the Webfoot stats is gradually
growing In prominence as a mineral
producer la shown by the selection of
the city of Portland for the next annual
meeting of the National Miners' asso
ciation. . '' '
The prominent paying mines of the
State of Oregon that is those known to
any extent may almost be counted on
one's fingers; In all there are perhaps
50 that are being worked regularly on a
paying basis.
K peep at the estimated output of the
principal mines for the year 190$ Is
gratifying to ons interested in the mln
feral development of the stats. -The
North Pols mine, in Baker county,
In concentrates, bullion and crude ores,
has averaged monthly , this year about
$1 $9,000, or for ths 12 months, $1,288,
eoo. i.:-- ." .
: The Columbia mine, in Baker eounty,
a neighbor of the North Pole,, has pro
duced monthly $127,500, for for the year,
$1,530,000.
The Bonanza, another Baker county
holding, has averaged $107,000 monthly,
or $1,284,000 for the year. -
The Tabor Fraction, in Baker county,
has produced $116,000 for ths year. ;
The California, Baker county, during
five months' work produced $200,000. It
was closed for three months, but .is
again at work.
The I X It and the Belcher mines
produced about $7,000 a month each, or
about $84,000 for the year.
The net output of the Oolconda for
the year Is in the neighborhood. of $600,
000. .: '-.'. :v ,. , : . : v :.',;.-',; ' .
The Morning mine, on Snow creek. In
Orant county, has produced during the
year about $36,000. . c
' The Greenback, in Southern Oregon,
has a monthly output of $30,000, or
$360,000 jfor the year. - - -.' v a.
.The famous Lucky Boy, in the Bias
river district, has for Its year's show
ing $2l5,000.r - r, ' , ,
Of the 40 smaller mines they sverags
from : 11,000 to $2,500 - month I, or
1,6I3,0 tot Um yaw.
This brings the total output of con
centrates and crude ores up to over
$$,000,000. Then there is the placer
gold, which must not be slighted. The
estimated product of this metal in
Southern Oregon for the year is $187,
000, and In Eastern Oregon $487,61$.
Most of the placer claims of Southern
Oregon' are found on Wlf and Oalice
creeks in Josephine county. Ths Wolf
creek holdings have brought forth
about' $36,000 worth of gold this year.
Six claims on Oallcs creek have a net
product of $87,000.' Three smaller
claims havs a showing of from $10,000
to $15,000 each.
Oregon stands in line at some time to
become one of the recognised coal pro
ducing states in the West. Millions of
tons of fuel are known to lay hidden in
the mountain fastness of the Cascades
and the Blues and only the development
of the railroad systems and ths scarcity
of wood fuel, which Is slowly coming,
Is needed to open up the mines of the
"black diamonds."
Along the Coast a few small mines
have been worked and found to contain
coal in abundance, hut the lack of
transportation facilities has made the
Industry anything' but an easy one, It
is well known what the mines of Boslyn
and Cle Elum, In Washington, are pro
ducingpaying even better - than the
famous North Pole gold mine, in Baker
county.' The same formations exist in
the Coast range In Oregon as are foutid
in the Boslyn district and there la every
reason, to believe that coal in vast de
posits is distributed along the entire
range.
: So much falth has the Oregon Rail
road A Navigation company' In the re
cently discovered coal fields of the
Heppner country, in Morrow county,
that it is building a branch Una into the
district, and expects soon to secure sll
Its fuel from this place. The supply in
this part of the state is said by experts
to be unlimited and the needs of ths
railroad company can lis readily sup
plied from ths deposits.
-. ..- Manila- Has a Boom.
From the Manila American.
. The biggest building boom that Ma
nila has ever experienced is how on snd
it will be continued indefinitely. Men
with capital know a good thing when
they see it
t k nrrr rr t i ttht r txt TTKTr W7TTTTTr
OF 1903 ARE $125,382,922
If there Is sny slngls thing that has
distinguished Portland In th North
west for ths last decade it Is her solid
financial foundation. Many millions of
dollars have gone from - Portland to
other cities and sections of the 'North
west for their development, and many
of them owe every dollar of prosperity
that they enjoy 'today to the working
power of Portland capital.
Portland has three national banks
and one or two less than a dozen other
banks and financial Institutions. , . Ths
former banks are the First National, the
United States .National and the Mer
chants National. The total resources of
these three banks at the close of busi
ness September S last was $10,909,000 in
loans and discounts. United States bonds.
other bonds and stocks, red aetata snd
In cash in hand and due from other
banks. The deposits by lndlvlduale and
other banks at the close of business fTo
$13,669,000. Th total clearings of th
Portland clearing-house for the firot nlns
months of the present year reached ths
sum of $125,382,932. Portland. It Is thus
seen, has a large amount of cash capi
tal, and her banks are as solid as thoss
of the large cities of the country. Ths
clearing-house showed r gain of $20,
000,000 during the first nine months of,
this year over 1902.
Hot Too. Warn.
Russia Is after warm water, bu3
hesitates about getting Into hot water.
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The Portland puhllo 4s invited to visit
this up-to-date sHtabllshment. and , see
: for Itself what ran pm accomplished by
, money and Portland skill. It is ths
' .home Of mechanical art. It is the eff-
- spring of ths genius of the times. ,
THEMAZE'eAPE
There are few, if any, places of amusement run in the Pacific Northwest that have become as popular as th Max Cafo, under the management of A,
Shapiro, who takes pride In running a high-class resort for ladle and gentlemen. If there's any "top liners" on the coast Manager Shapiro la the ' jirat
to secure them for his pLica, Legitimate acts always find a4 opening; for an engagement there. '"".V'- " :: '" '' '"' '"
Just at present, "The American Troubadors" ar filling an engagement 'at this popular resort, 7 and It Is Only fair to ay.' nothing better in their iln
Jever StHick this city. - Four handsome Isdy musicians. whOs very souls are bp movement of artistic and divine music. Their orchestra is conducted by
C. A. McClure, a musician of rare ability. .To heaf them Is to have a longing to do so again and agala ; s L Li7 n.'. :'1:J.. li:
. In addition 'to concert music many novel, vaudeville specialtiea are on the boards at the Maxe Cafe. If xbu waii t to spend a pleasant eveiilng, din't
fall to'vislt Shapiro & Lake and their Mase Cafe, at 185-181 Third streot You'll enjoy yourself and be glad you went. Take our word for th.iv